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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (46251)	10/14/2000 7:00:34 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

PartyTime, what you appear to be doing is rationalizing away your name calling as "being fair game", while at the same time trying to get someone booted for the same thing. Who is to be the judge of "fair game" you? I personally don't like name-calling and try to stay away from it. But at times I know I lapse into it as part of "the game". The point is, I would never complain to SI about something I have been a part of. That is hypocrisy, no matter how much you want to pretend otherwise. As to New England. I've lived in New England, have friends who live there, many, many relatives and know something about the state. As to your first point. Democrats have been in charge of New England politics for the better part of 30 years. And Boston Harbor is a disgrace. It should never have been allowed to get that way to begin with. And it wouldn't have unless Democrat (scratch my back, I'll scratch yours) politicians allowed it to happen. As to your belief that the clean environment is solely do to Democratic politicians. The environmental cleanliness has more to do with our nations shift from industrial factories to the information age, then anything else. Along with our greater wealth. These two factors, have far more to do with the environmental state of our nation today than anything else. When a nation grows it's wealth, it can afford to place higher restrictions on emissions and so forth. Additionally, Reagan lowering the tax rate from over 70% to 30%, created the environment around which our businesses have flourished in the last two decades. Thank God he took over, after Jimmy Carter and the 30 year entrenched congress got us into the mess we were were in. Additionally, businesses are much more sensitive to the environment today, because they realize it's good business to be seen as a community steward of the environment. Loads of young people have moved from the Boston suburbs to Seattle. And if you have lived in Boston for the last 10 years, you would know this. The fact that you deny it, demonstrates how willing you are to put your head in the sand and defend whatever Democratic spin you want to put out. High taxation rates have driven many young people to move. There have even been stories in the Boston Globe describing the problem. But I'm not about to go on a search mission to defend what is obvious. Recently, (the last 2-3 years) things have begun to improve again in the Boston economy. But the taxation rate is still forcing many middle class people to flee to other areas. The rich are doing well, but the middle class are struggling and looking for answers. Sadly, many find the answer of moving more appealing than staying. Now, tell me something about this bridge/tunnel which is costing something like 10 billion dollars to build. And is reported to be the largest cost overun project in the history of our nation?